Building Oracle XML Applications

Part II. Oracle XML Fundamentals

This part of the book describes the core development activities that Oracle XML developers need to understand when using XML with an Oracle database. It consists of the following chapters:

• Chapter 3, provides a typical “day-in-the-life” scenario illustrating the power of combining XML with an Oracle database.

• Chapter 4, describes how you can use Oracle’s JDeveloper product to help with XML development.

• Chapter 5, explains how you can use PL/SQL to load XML files, parse XML, search XML documents, post XML messages, and both enqueue and dequeue XML messages from queues.

• Chapter 6 explains how you can combine Java, JDBC, and XML both inside and outside Oracle8i to load XML files, parse XML, search XML documents, and post XML messages, as well as enqueue and dequeue XML messages from queues.

• Chapter 7, explains the fundamentals of creating XSLT stylesheets to carry out transformations of a source XML document into a resulting XML, HTML, or plain text output.

• Chapter 8, explains how to build dynamic XML datagrams from SQL using declarative templates to perform many common tasks.

• Chapter 9, builds on the fundamentals from Chapter 7 and explores additional XSLT functionality like variables, sorting and grouping techniques, and the many kinds of useful transformations that can be done using a variation on the identity transformation.

• Chapter 10, gives Java developers a whirlwind introduction to PL/SQL and describes how to use PL/SQL to dynamically produce ...